--- a/documents/genericScrapers.py
+++ b/documents/genericScrapers.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 import abc
+import dateutil.parser
 
 class GenericOAICDisclogScraper(object):
 	__metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
@@ -46,8 +47,9 @@
 							
 						if doc == None:
 							print "saving"
+                                                        edate = dateutil.parser.parse(date.string).date().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
 							doc = {'_id': hash, 'agencyID': self.getAgencyID(), 'url': self.getURL(), "links": links, 'docID': id.string,
-			 				 "date": date.string, "description": descriptiontxt,"title": title.string,"notes": notes.string}
+			 				 "date": edate, "description": descriptiontxt,"title": title.string,"notes": notes.string}
 							foidocsdb.save(doc)
 						else:
 							print "already saved"